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Top Ten (approximately) Tuesday – Best of 2017 (so far…)

It’s that time of year again! Can you believe we’re already half-way through 2017?! And so, naturally, this week’s topic from the girls at The Broke and the Bookish is Best Books in 2017 so far. I’m limiting myself to new releases for this post, so in order of release, here are my Top Ten Picks for the first half of 2017:

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First Line Friday – 21 April 2017 – Life After (Katie Ganshert)

Hello First Liners! Lovely to have you back again. This week I’m featuring the first line from an emotionally gripping read by Katie Ganshert. It released earlier this week on 18 April, and you can read my review here. It’s a not-to-be-missed read! ~ About the Book ~ It could have been me. Snow whirls around an elevated train platform in Chicago. A distracted woman boards the train, takes her seat, and moments later a fiery explosion rips through the frigid air, tearing the car apart in a horrific attack on the city’s transit system. One life is spared. Twenty-two are

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Life After (Katie Ganshert) – Review

  ~ About the Book ~ It could have been me. Snow whirls around an elevated train platform in Chicago. A distracted woman boards the train, takes her seat, and moments later a fiery explosion rips through the frigid air, tearing the car apart in a horrific attack on the city’s transit system. One life is spared. Twenty-two are lost. A year later, Autumn Manning can’t remember the day of the bombing and she is tormented by grief—by guilt. Twelve months of the question constantly echoing. Why? Why? Why? Searching for answers, she haunts the lives of the victims, unable

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Weekend Book Buzz – 15/16 April 2017

He is risen indeed! Alleluia! Alleluia! It may not be quite Sunday where you are, but it’s coming! So happy and blessed Resurrection Day to you all! Here’s a quick recap of what’s happened here at Fiction Aficionado over the last week:

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Top Ten Tuesday – My Spring (Autumn!) TBR Part 2

Top Ten Tuesday is back to its regular schedule today with the girls from The Broke and The Bookish, but if you caught last week’s post you’ll know I got in a week early! When I saw that this week’s post would be a Top Ten list of spring (otherwise known as autumn in my part of the world) TBR titles, I knew there was no way I could fit them all in one post, so I split mine into two parts. If you want to see what made it on to my first-half-of-spring list, you can read last week’s

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Top Ten Tuesday, er Wednesday… um, Thursday? – 2017 Debuts I’m Excited For

Want to hear a funny story?  I’ve been planning on mixing up my blog posts a bit this year, now that I’m settling into the book blogging community and discovering all the fun things that go on.  One of the things I thought I would do this year is Top Ten Tuesday, masterminded by the gals at The Broke and the Bookish.  Good plan, huh?  Well, I’m good at plans.  But here is a classic example of what happens when plans land in my hands:

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